PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)

France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (Sarah White/Financial Times)

Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (Bloomberg)

Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to "despotification"; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (Mike Masnick/Liberalism.org)

A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI safety standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons (Emily Mullin/Wired)